‘Cosmic Beauty:’ NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will find baby pictures of our universe
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Happy 25 years, Chandra! NASA celebrates with 25 stunning images from its flagship X-ray observatory
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Hubble telescope has moved into single-gyroscope mode after months of technical issues – aerospace engineering expert explains
Imagine you have a laser beam trained on a dime that is 200 miles away. Now imagine doing that continuously for 24 hours, while riding …
Hubble telescope has moved into single-gyroscope mode after months of technical issues – aerospace engineering expert explains
Imagine you have a laser beam trained on a dime that is 200 miles away. Now imagine doing that continuously for 24 hours, while riding …
Hubble Telescope maps high-speed ‘burps’ from nearby supermassive black hole for 1st time
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have, for the first time ever, mapped the plasma “bubbles” of a supermassive black hole-powered quasar that lives relatively …
A star that exploded like a nuclear bomb is still raising questions half a century later
After a thermonuclear explosion in a binary star system about 3,400 light years away has been witnessed by the Hubble Space Telescope. HM Sagittae, or …
A billionaire wanted to save the Hubble Telescope – this is why NASA politely refused
It has been 34 years since the Hubble Space Telescope launched into the harsh and unforgiving environment of Earth’s orbit. It is currently located about …
Hubble Space Telescope Is Blocked, But Should Work For Years, NASA Says
Trouble with one of the Hubble Space Telescope’s three remaining gyroscopes, which are critical to targeting and locking onto targets, has prompted mission managers to …
NASA will provide an update on the status of the Hubble Telescope on June 4. Should we be worried?
We’ll get an update on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope tomorrow (June 4), and it could be quite a deal. On June 3, the agency announced …
The future is bright for astronomy, and very expensive (op-ed)
Astronomy has a bright future. The universe is being revealed in exquisite detail as the current generation of large optical telescopes reaches back next to …